Contributors
- Contributors
Michael Aronson is assistant professor at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on the movies, everyday life, and archive fever, particularly where the three intersect. Currently, he is writing an account of the Pittsburgh nickelodeon.
Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American.
Thomas Doherty chairs the film studies program at Brandeis University and is author most recently of Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture.
Linda Young Elkins has nearly fifteen years experience working with the Peabody Awards Archive at the University of Georgia Libraries, having entered the field of moving image archiving via librarianship. An active member of AMIA since 1994, she helped compile the AMIA Compendium of Moving Image Cataloging, published jointly with the Society of American Archivists (SSA) in 2001. She received an MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, followed by many years of experience in acquisitions, cataloging, and reference in university libraries.
Karl G. Heider is Carolina Distinguished Professor in Anthropology at the University of South Carolina and past president of the Society for Visual Anthropology. Among his works are the books Ethnographic Film, Indonesian Cinema, and Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film, and the films Tikal (1961), Dani Houses (1974), and Dani Sweet Potatoes (1974). Currently he is researching emotions and folk psychology of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra.
Jan-Christopher Horak is curator of the Hollywood Entertainment Museum, adjunct professor in critical studies at UCLA, and founding vice president of AMIA. Horak is author of numerous books and articles, including Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema, Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, and The Dream Merchants: Making and Selling Films in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Julie Hubbert is assistant professor of music history at the University of South Carolina. She has written articles on a variety of film-music topics, including music practices at New York movie palaces, Eisenstein’s theory of montage, the influence of cinema verité in early 1970s sound tracks, and popular music in Martin Scorsese’s films. Her book Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History is forthcoming from the University of California Press.
Patrick Keating recently finished a year as visiting lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written articles about Hollywood lighting and Italian cinema.
Richard P. May is currently vice president for film preservation for Warner Bros. Technical Operations, Inc. He has been supervising preservation of the pre-1986 MGM library since the formation of Turner Entertainment Company. He is member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and AMIA.
Eric Schaefer is associate professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. He has contributed articles on exploitation and sexploitation film to various journals and anthologies. He is the author of “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!”: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959 and is currently working on Massacre of Pleasure: A History of the Sexploitation Film, 1960–1979.
Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart worked as program coordinator for film and media at Goethe Institute New York for more than thirty years. Her job entailed helping German filmmakers and German film in general become known and appreciated in the United States.
Amy J. Staples is senior archivist of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. She earned a PhD from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has published film reviews and essays on expeditionary films in scholarly journals and publications.
Dwight Swanson is an archivist at Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. He has previously worked at Northeast Historic Film, the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association and the Human Studies Film Archives. His primary interest is home movies and amateur film culture, and he is a cofounder of Home Movie Day and the Center for Home Movies.
Michele L. Torre is a doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies Department at the University of Southern California, where she is finishing her dissertation on prerevolutionary Russian cinema. She has guest...
